doctor

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A doctor of medicine.

noun

The definition of a doctor is someone with a doctorate or someone licensed to practice a healing art.
1. An example of doctor is a professer with a doctorate in education.
2. An example of doctor is a pediatrician.

verb

To doctor is defined as to alter, repair or change in order to mislead.
1. An example of to doctor is adding salt to a bland meal.
2. An example of to doctor is a waiter changing the tip amount on a signed credit card bill.

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doctor

Archaic a teacher or learned man
a person who holds a doctorate
a physician or surgeon
a person licensed to practice any of the healing arts, as an osteopath, dentist, veterinarian, etc.
[D-] a title used in addressing any person who holds a doctorate
a witch doctor or medicine man
a makeshift device, apparatus, etc., for emergency use
a bright-colored artificial fly used in fishing

Origin of doctor

Middle English doctour, teacher, learned man from Old French or from Classical Latin doctor, teacher from past participle of docere, to teach: see decent

to try to heal; apply medicine to
to repair; mend
to make suitable or improve by altering in a certain way
to tamper with or change in order to deceive: to doctor accounts

Informal to practice medicine
Dial. to undergo medical treatment, take medicine, etc.

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doctor

noun

a. A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine or a school of osteopathic medicine; a physician.
b. Any of certain other healthcare professionals, such as a dentist, optometrist, chiropractor, podiatrist, or veterinarian.
A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.
a. A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.
b. A person awarded an honorary degree by a college or university.
Abbr. Dr. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.
Roman Catholic Church An eminent theologian.
A rig or device contrived for remedying an emergency situation or for doing a special task.

verb

doc·tored, doc·tor·ing, doc·tors

verb

transitive

Informal To give medical treatment to: “[He] does more than practice medicine. He doctors people. There's a difference” ( Charles Kuralt )
To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig.
a. To falsify or change in such a way as to make favorable to oneself: doctored the evidence.
b. To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of: doctor the soup with a dash of sherry.
c. To alter or modify for a specific end: doctored my standard speech for the small-town audience.
d. Baseball To deface or apply a substance to (the ball) in violation of the rules in order to throw a pitch with extraordinary movement: was ejected because he doctored the ball with a piece of sandpaper.

verb

intransitive Informal

To practice medicine.

Origin of doctor

Middle English an expert, authority from Old French docteur from Latin doctor teacher from docēre to teach ; see dek- in Indo-European roots.

Related Forms:

doc′tor·al
adjective

doc′tor·ly
adjective

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Noun

(plural doctors)

A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, DPT, DC, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
(dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"
A fish, the friar skate.

Usage notes

Doctor is capitalized when used as a title:
Doctor Smith

Verb

(third-person singular simple present doctors, present participle doctoring, simple past and past participle doctored)

To act as a medical doctor to.
Her children doctored her back to health.
To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
To genetically alter an extant species.
Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.

Origin

From Middle English doctor, doctour (“an expert, authority on a subject”), from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“I teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)).

Noun

(plural Doctors)

The title of an academic or medical doctor (a person who holds a doctorate); used before the doctor's name.
The students asked to see Doctor Jones.
Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure.
Well, Doctor, what do you think? Will he live?

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doctor - Medical Definition

1. A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine or a school of osteopathic medicine; a physician.
2. Any of certain other healthcare professionals, such as a dentist, optometrist, chiropractor, podiatrist, or veterinarian.
A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.
Abbr. Dr. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.

Related Forms:

doc′tor·al (dŏk′tə-rəl, dŏk-tôr′əl)
adj.

doc′tor·ly
adj.

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